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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. These messages could include references to images found on public websites.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

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This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. In an ensuing discussion around this “charging station” reference it wasn’t clear what the author meant. 39% assumed charging station refers to the site/location and 43.2%

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Standards Take Online Gaming to the Next Level

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In-person tournaments are expected to be held again once COVID-19 restrictions ease. Cloud gaming is catching on because users can stream games stored on a remote server to their mobile device, eliminating the need for gaming consoles and PCs. The framework provides a reference architecture for the design and construction of games.

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The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game

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arguably began with a 1982 paper by the computer scientist David Chaum , but it reached mainstream attention with the success of Bitcoin , a cryptocurrency created by the anonymous person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto. Each chunk of the game’s code (which it refers to as a “gene”) describes the attributes of a digital cat.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Cool actuators and simulators.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The speech writer later said that neither he nor McColough had a specific definition of the phrase. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. It’s a personal challenge. I personally had to play the heavy on a lot of stuff,” he said.

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